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The leaders were targeting the world record of 14:24.68... |
...which was run by Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse exactly one year earlier on this day. |
24-year-old Merima Hashim had finished fourth at the Freihofer's Run for Women in Albany, New York... |
...one week earlier, where she ran 15:49 for a road 5K. |
When the pacesetters dropped out, that left Tirunesh Dibaba in the lead, just ahead of Ejegayehu Dibaba... |
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...and Sentayehu Ejigu. |
Merima Hashim leads Catherine Berry. |
Tirunesh Dibaba seemed to have the best shot at the record. Her last race in the U.S., the Reebok Boston Indoor Games... |
... in February, produced a 5,000m world indoor record of 14:32.93. |
Tirunesh and Ejegayehu took turns setting the pace. |
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Though the weather had cooled off a bit by the time of the women's 5,000... |
...the weather was still too hot and humid to be conducive to record times. |
The women were lucky, however, that they ran when they did, because shortly after the meet ended, Icahn Stadium got nailed... |
...with a spectacular thunderstorm. |
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At 2,600 meters, there was still a group of three Ejegayehu Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba, and Sentayehu Ejigu up front. |
Ejegayehu, 23, is the elder of the Dibaba sisters. She won an Olympic silver medal in the 10,000 last summer in Athens. |
Tirunesh, who will turn 20 on July 24, won an Olympic bronze medal in the 5,000 last summer... |
...and swept the 4K and 8K titles at the 2005 World Cross Country Championships in March. |
Reports indicate that Tirunesh and Ejegayehu were on or ahead of world record pace for much of the race, but with one kilometer to go... |
